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A layer-by-layer look at what actually makes a WordPress site fast, from disk to browser, plus the questions worth asking any host about the hardware and software running underneath your site.
Stores aren't blogs. Here's which pages must stay dynamic, how object caching and edge rules work together, and how to speed up a WooCommerce site without corrupting carts or showing stale prices.
Before you trust any before-and-after speed number, you need to know whose cache you tested, where the request came from, and whether a bot skewed the sample.
Learn how self-hosting, subsetting, preloading, and font-display swap keep custom fonts from delaying your Largest Contentful Paint or causing layout shift.
A systematic way to find which plugin is eating your response time, using wp-cli, Query Monitor, and a disable-and-test method, then decide whether to configure, replace, or delete it.
A clear-headed walkthrough of LCP, INP, and CLS on WordPress, plus the order of fixes that actually moves the needle instead of chasing every red number in the report.
Learn how to install, configure, and tune OpenLiteSpeed and LiteSpeed Cache to cut WordPress load times and handle more traffic on the same hardware.
Cloudflare has launched Workers Cache, a tiered caching layer that sits in front of Workers and is configured entirely through Wrangler and standard Cache-Control headers, eliminating CPU charges on cache hits.
Learn how to use WordPress's object cache API correctly so your plugin or theme code speeds up automatically the moment a persistent cache like Redis appears.
A plain-language guide to what hosting plans actually meter, what fair-use clauses really mean, and how to estimate the transfer your WordPress site truly needs.
